[LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Thu Dec 13 01:33:50 CET 2007
On 10.12.2007 01:19, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2007, Oliver McFadden wrote:
>
>
>> The opcodes and format of the binary scripts and data tables are described
>> by the parser code, so I think there is enough information, except for how
>> to actually flash the on-card ROM...
>>
>
> My first interest is to _use_ AtomBIOS cards, and hence I started working on
> getting the interpreter glued to LinuxBIOS. At least my monitor currently
> stays totally black with LinuxBIOS, until X comes up, see my previous mails
> to this list.
Have you tried uvesafb to boot the card under Linux? In that case, you
probably have to skip option ROM execution during LinuxBIOS boot.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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